Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Type

Government organization

Status

Active

Total investments

120

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

108

Rounds per year

3.24

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareAppsManufacturingElectronicsEnergy

Summary

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1987. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Moncton. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Avalon Holographics, QRA Corp, Wagepoint. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Health Care.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 46 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. This Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, startups are often financed by New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Innovacorp, StartFast. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovacorp, National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program, Patrick Hankinson. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovacorp, U.S. Department of Defense, TIMIA Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
120
Lead investments
26
Exits
7
Rounds per year
3.24
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • Health Care (20)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Biotechnology (16)
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (114)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
743K
Group Appearance index
0.25
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.14

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Consilient Technologies 01 Jan 2004 Seed 1M Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
Prodigal Technologies 20 Aug 2018 Software, Financial Services, Finance Seed 120K United States, California, Mountain View
Talkatoo 09 Oct 2019 Software, Health Care Seed 556K Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

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